First use of Essence and Reload

[suke]

I've had quite a few folks interested in getting ceramic coatings, yet all are turned off by the high price of getting a coating. Looking for ways to give clients what they're looking for while trying not to break myself doing it. I decided to give essence topped with reload a try. Figured it'd be best to give it a whirl on my own vehicles first. So up comes my DD. While this has never seen a tunnel wash it has gone weeks sometimes months without a bath and it's driven like crazy.

As you can see the paint really didn't have any swirls. A few RIDS but no visible swirls. This was before I washed it or anything



This has never seen a polisher and it almost 4 years old with 80k miles. It didn't even really need to be clayed....I did it anyways. She's naked and ready for essence.


Few random scratches here or there.



Trim on this thing was beyond done


Wasn't quite sure what essence would do on black trim. It was toast so figured worst case I pull it off and paint it anyways.
After


Essence going down. Now I've read in several places people complaining about it being hard to work with or hard to remove. Honda paint is middle of the right edging towards soft and I had no issues. I even tried to abuse it. Cranked the speed up on the flex, left it on panels when I went on to other panels, etc. Every time it the residue just came right off. It's quite possibly one of the easiest polishes I've ever used. When I get more vehicles under my belt with this maybe I'll figure out what people are complaining about.


After essence


Scratch is gone....granted that did take some work, not just essence







After reload


I hate black wheels and these ones are stupid soft and scratch when you look at them. I have them coated, so wasn't really looking to deal with these at this time. However, was curious to see what essence did on these.
before

after just essence. Not perfect, but holy crap what is this sorcery?


All in I had less than 10 hours in from wash to reload. That's impressive for me.

[Mantilgh]

Cool, thanks posting this up!

That wheel, wow!!!

What was your process on the wheel?

[jaimz11]

Nice work! What pad did you use?

[lane5515]

Very nice! Essence and Reload are fantastic products that never let me down.

[Cruzscarwash]

Essence has been my AIO go to and coating prep for a little bit now. I really like it and so do clients.makes my job easier and leaves them very satisfied

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[lj993]

Car looks new. Nice work. Thanks for the write up. Phil

[suke]

Essence has been my AIO go to and coating prep for a little bit now. I really like it and so do clients.makes my job easier and leaves them very satisfied

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That was exactly my thought process. Normally a full 2 stage polish, sealant, and wax would take me close to 20 hours on a car. If I can get out for 10 total WHILE getting a coating that's a MAJOR time saver.

[suke]

Cool, thanks posting this up!

That wheel, wow!!!

What was your process on the wheel?

Believe it or not just a 3" finishing pad and essence on a porter cable. Nothing fancy at all.

[suke]

Nice work! What pad did you use?

I used Adam's orange pad. Which is basically a finishing pad. I tried my meguiars microfiber cutting pad on some RIDS and it didn't do anything with essence, not surprising really. So figure any REAL scratches will take M105, but likely swirls this stuff would eat up. Sadly my car didn't really have any swirls. I'll be doing my neighbors car which is black and swirled up here next week. Should give me an idea of how this stuff will really work for me.

The scratches I had on the roof I ended up having to wetsand with 3000 grit sandpaper then M105 with a megs MF cutting pad. I likely could have gone over it a couple times with M105, but to speed up the process I just busted out the sandpaper.

[Eldorado2k]

I'm about to try that on my wheels


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